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    Stourton, Jane

    Female Abt 1418 - 1472  (~ 54 years)


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    • Name Stourton, Jane 
      Born Abt 1418  Of Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died 21 Apr 1472  Of Brimpton, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I08424  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 16 Jun 2015 

      Father Stourton, John,   b. Abt 1374, Of Brimpton, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 16 Dec 1438, Staverdale, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years) 
      Mother Denys, Alice,   b. Abt 1400, Of Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1420, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 20 years) 
      Married Abt 1410  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F01531  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Sydenham, John,   d. 4 Apr 1460, Of Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Sydenham, Walter,   b. Abt 1435, Of Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Apr 1469, Of Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 34 years)
      Family ID F02558  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • John Stourton married, secondly, Alice Dennis or Peny, of Co. Kent,
        called Alice, daughter and heir of . . . Peny, by Hoare, and confirmed as to the name by Had, MS., 1074; and as daughter of . . . Dennis, of Kent, by Edmondson. By her he had issue a daughter and coheir : - -
        Jane Stourton, aged 21 years in 1439, wrongly called Alice in the
        Visitation for Co. Somerset, but corrected to Jane in the old pedigree of 1509, who married John Sydenham, Esquire, M.P. for Co. Somerset, and which marriage is confirmed subject to Alice for Jane, by the Visitation for Co. Somerset, as well as being confirmed by Hoare and Edmondson, and supported by legal records.
        John Sydenham predeceased his wife, on the 4th April, 1460, leaving Walter, his son and heir, aged 25, and in his Inquisition taken in 8 Edward IV., he was called John Sydenham, senior. Esquire, and Preston Manor was then said to be held of the Honor of Trowbridge. His son and heir, Walter Sydenham, also predeceased his mother, Jane Sydenham, on the 1st May, 1469, leaving John Sydenham, his son and next heir, who was the next heir of his grandmother, Mrs. Joan Sydenham, .... She died 21st April, 1472, and her Inquisition was taken after her death, 31st October following, at Crewkerne, before Thomas Phelipp, Escheator, when she was said to have been wife of John Sydenham, armiger, and it was found she had died seised of Brimpton Manor, with the Advowson of that Church, and the said Chantry of the blessed, Virgin Mary therein ; as well as of the Manors of Preston, Combe-Sydenham*, Stoke-Gomere, Bosington, Ronnyngton, and Ashbrittle, with considerable lands, tenements, and the Advowson of the Church at Ashbrittle, besides lands and tenements in Lukeyerd, Hoo, Timberscombe, Ketenor Quaram, Ketenor, Mouncez, Sydenham, Cobbehay, Smitheney, Mauworth, Ronington, Thorn St. Margaret, Rammesyate, Langford Buddeville, Chiltern Dunmere, and Mulverton; also two tenements, a fulling mill, and one carucate or ploughland in Streme, parish of St. Decumans ; i messuage, 60 acres of arable land, 70 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, and 4 acres of wood, in East and West Chescombe, leaving her grandson, John Sydenham, (son and next heir of her then late son, Walter Sydenham, Esquire,) as her next heir, then aged 3 years...